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Submissions to the print issue are currently closed; they'll open up
again in July, when we'll also be announcing issue 7's theme and
contest.
Latest Issue: dislocate #6
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The 208-page “Contaminated Issue” features work on the subjects
of contamination and hybridity, including: creative work by Michael
Martone and Jenny Boully; interviews with Jim Shepard, Adam
Hochschild, and Adam Zagajewski; art by Jana Flynn and Justine Beth
Gartner; and the winning entries from our Contaminated Essay
Contest, judged by acclaimed essayist Lia Purpura.
| Masthead |
| I. Goddamn Right I Am |
| The New Nature [p] |
Joshua Ware & Crystal S. Gibbins |
| Copper [p] |
Carrie Meadows |
| C+, B-, B, F, B, A, C-, A- [f] |
Chris Gavaler |
| Wal-Mart Aquariums [p] |
Jeffrey H. MacLachlan |
| King of Prussia [f] |
Jen Adams |
| Aquatic Mammal Poem [p] |
Marianne Morris |
| I Was Over There for a While [p] |
Tyler Flynn Dorholt |
| Photographs I Did Not Take [nf] |
Lindsey Drager |
| Shooting Pool with Anne Heche the Day After Ellen and Portia's Wedding [p] |
Julie Marie Wade |
| The Quiet Charge: An Interview with Jim Shepard |
J. C. Sirott |
| II. When We Fail |
| H.A. [f] |
Curtis Dawkins |
| Goodbye, Cruel World [f] |
David Laskowski |
| His Chromotherapy's So Accretive [p] |
Michael Aird |
| Perusing an online catalog of hipster laptop bags [p] |
Elizabeth Aoki |
| Horse Power | Museum [p] |
Lori Anderson Moseman |
| Questioning Celan [p] |
George Moore |
| The Art of Moral History: An Interview with Adam Hochschild |
J. Lee Morsell |
| III. I Am a Rider on the Bus |
| from not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them [nf] |
Jenny Boully |
| Tiny or, Time Travel and the Endless Charm of Dinosaurs [p] |
Jason Baker |
| Noises [p], Historical fragment/3 [p], Historical fragment (present tense) [p] |
Rachel M. Harris |
| Black Apples [f] |
Lucas Church |
| The Stocking Cap [p] |
George A. Higgins |
| IV. Hoping to Appear |
| The Sacred Breadbox [f], The Broth Never Varies [f] |
Greg Bachar |
| Thank You For Calling [f] |
Walter B. Levis |
| Marc Jacobs Left Reeling Due To The Theft Of His Inner Child [p], Bradford Gray Telford Proffers Many Red Group Tongues [p] |
Bradford Gray Telford |
| Impermanence: Or Why I Can't Stop Googling Myself [f] |
Robert Anthony Siegel |
| Hunter of Ecstatic Moments: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski |
Colleen Coyne & Molly Sutton Kiefer |
| V. The Contaminated Essay Contest, judged by Lia Purpura |
| Reticulation |
Lehua M. Taitano |
| Pratincole |
Josh Garrett-Davis |
| Air Hunger |
Katie Jean Shinkle |
| Tidewater |
Nick Neely |
| C:\run iliad.exe |
Brian Oliu |
| Coda: Alone After an Interview |
| Sigmund Freud, Alone After an Interview, Dreams of Questions |
Michael Martone |
| Artwork |
| Interior Art |
Justine Beth Gartner |
| Cover Art: "Upheaval, Eroded Fold, the Work of Ice" |
Jana Flynn |